Cycle Park Advice ?

[thesahunter]

I just need to get something off my chest & maybe some clarification on something:

 

So I've been taking my 5year old boy to the cycle park, normally Big Red Barn, for the past 1 1/2 years now. (And he absolutely loves it, doing pretty good for his age.) We normally do the 6km green route with the odd 12km evey now and then. So when ever we hear someone behind us we normally look for a place to pull over and do so to let them pass. And normally, since it is the Green Track, it ends up being a family or a couple of friends enjoying the ride . 99% of the time they say "Thanx" and a couple of encouraging words to my boy, which he deserves, since he is pretty hardcore riding a 12km offroad at 5 !

 

Then you get the Real Arseholes who storms up behind us and start huffing & puffing if we don't make way Immediately !! Then they do not even have the audacity to say thanx, when we find a place to pull over.

 

Now I have 2 questions:

1. Am I in the wrong, taking my child outside, intruducing him to the sport of cycling, and doing so on the Green Track, which is for a family fun ride ?

2. What the hell is this Arsehole, normally riding alone, and between 35-45 years, doing on the Green Track if he is such a "Pro Rider". Surely he should be on the longer/ more dificult tracks ? Or doesn't he belong there ? Being the one that has to pull over the whole time, now he is being the "Groot Meneer" on the 6km green track ?

[velomonatiCT]

I just need to get something off my chest & maybe some clarification on something:

 

So I've been taking my 5year old boy to the cycle park, normally Big Red Barn, for the past 1 1/2 years now. (And he absolutely loves it, doing pretty good for his age.) We normally do the 6km green route with the odd 12km evey now and then. So when ever we hear someone behind us we normally look for a place to pull over and do so to let them pass. And normally, since it is the Green Track, it ends up being a family or a couple of friends enjoying the ride . 99% of the time they say "Thanx" and a couple of encouraging words to my boy, which he deserves, since he is pretty hardcore riding a 12km offroad at 5 !

 

Then you get the Real Arseholes who storms up behind us and start huffing & puffing if we don't make way Immediately !! Then they do not even have the audacity to say thanx, when we find a place to pull over.

 

Now I have 2 questions:

1. Am I in the wrong, taking my child outside, intruducing him to the sport of cycling, and doing so on the Green Track, which is for a family fun ride ?

 Being the one that has to pull over the whole time, now he is being the "Groot Meneer" on the 6km green track ?

 

What a good point - why isn't this champion world class in his own lunchtime mtb rider out charging around some world class mountain trail ?

 

you get the same sad idiots on the kiddies track around tokai plantation storming up and down on their 'sussers' with all their silly gear like its the epic scaring the kids

 

its sad man

 

rant over

[Ampandy]

I would say you are in the right. Kudos to you for encouraging your son at such a young age and thumbs up to him for riding it.

 

That said, you have paid your entry fees and have every right to ride at a pace that is comfy to you and your son. Provided you give way to those that are quicker when safe to do so.

[NicNacDH]

Just ignore the occasional asshole, they have no life, and no meaning.

Don't let you and your son go down on that, just enjoy your ride, like the other 99% .

[DominionZA]

Where you 2 adult guys with 2 youngsters? I came up on the above today, but I was patient - and I said thanks [emoji4]

 

I take my wife and my 10 year old son to BRB for family time. Wifey gave me a gap today to go play on the blue trail a bit. I found the blue often goes back to green then veers off again on blue. So ye - even if doing blue, you end up on green a fair amount.

 

Also, green tops out at about 16km if you follow it all the way. Well that is what myself, wifey and my boy did 2 weeks back when following green.

[thesahunter]

No I was riding alone with my son. We were on the track accross the road from the barn.

 

About a year ago. He was still on his 16" bike. And another cyclist rode past him shouting at him "You ride like a champion". Those words stuck with him, and he constantly reminds me of that day, and what the oom told him.

 

Just a piity you get the odd arsehole that dont have respect for anybody around them.

 

But you guys are right. I will not let that deter him from getting on the trails with me and enjoy/suffer every minute of the ride.

 

 

 

Thanx

[Belgarath]

I go ride at BRB quite often. Quite easily my favourite place.

 

I know exactly the kind you talk of. They have delusions of grandeur. Ignore them. Mtb'ers need to stand together, make it fun for everybody.

 

What did the oke look like that told your son he rides like a champ? Very tall and lanky? Sounds like something an oke I know would say...

[Odinson]

Plain and simple: trails are shared and you should be courteous towards others.